Recent Books

The following table shows the books I've recently read or acquired. At the moment the title link points to the amazon page for the book, but at some point I'll have it take you to a full description of the book.

The main purpose of this page is to exercise my MySQL database that I built from a Bookpedia export file. I really dig Bookpedia, but it's OS X only, and because it's closed source, I worry about all my book data being lost if I abandon OS X or if the developers abandon the program.

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Title	Copyright	Author	Publisher	Pages	Last Read	Purchased
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1	1961	Julia Child	Alfred A. Knopf	752		Feb 2010
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 1	1992	Jim Hamm	The Lyons Press	320		Feb 2010
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 2	1992	Jim Hamm	The Lyons Press	320		Feb 2010
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 3	1994	Jim Hamm	The Lyons Press	352		Feb 2010
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 4	2008	Jim Hamm	The Lyons Press	320		Feb 2010
Frank Barr	1986	Dermot Cole	Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company	115		Mar 2010
Now Eat This!	2010	Rocco Dispirito	Ballantine Books	272		Apr 2010
The Lacuna	2009	Barbara Kingsolver	Harper	528		Apr 2010
Man in the Dark	2008	Paul Auster	Picador	192		May 2010
Drop City	2003	T.C. Boyle	Penguin (Non-Classics)	512		May 2010
The Women	2009	T.C. Boyle	Penguin (Non-Classics)	464		May 2010
The End of Major Combat Operations	2010	Nick McDonell	McSweeney's	160		May 2010
Norwegian Wood	1987	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	298		May 2010
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time	2007	Patrick Alexander	Vintage	400		Jun 2010
A Whaler's Dictionary	2008	Dan Beachy-Quick	Milkweed Editions	224		Jun 2010
The Complete Manual of Typography	2003	James Felici	Adobe Press	384		Jun 2010
bash Pocket Reference	2010	Arnold Robbins	O'Reilly Media	132		Jun 2010
How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition	2008	Mark Bittman	Wiley	1,056		Jul 2010
East Is East	1990	T.C. Boyle	Penguin (Non-Classics)	384		Jul 2010
The Final Solution	2004	Michael Chabon	Harper Perennial	131		Jul 2010
Freedom from Fear	2005	David M. Kennedy	Oxford University Press, USA	936		Jul 2010
The Copernican Revolution	1957	Thomas S. Kuhn	Harvard University Press	320		Jul 2010
Vanishing Point	2004	David Markson	Counterpoint	208		Jul 2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet	2010	David Mitchell	Random House	496		Jul 2010
Cutting for Stone	2009	Abraham Verghese	Vintage	688		Jul 2010
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Under the Dome	2009	Stephen King	Scribner	1,088	Jan 2010	Nov 2009
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 33	2009	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	600	Jan 2010	Dec 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	2005	Stieg Larsson	Vintage	608	Jan 2010	Jan 2010
Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day	2009	Peter Reinhart	Ten Speed Press	224	Jan 2010	Jan 2010
Dance Dance Dance	1994	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	393	Feb 2010	Jul 2007
Special Topics in Calamity Physics	2006	Marisha Pessl	Penguin Press	528	Feb 2010	Jul 2007
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World	1991	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	416	Feb 2010	Jul 2008
The Pesthouse	2007	Jim Crace	Vintage	272	Mar 2010	Mar 2010
The Girl Who Played with Fire	2009	Stieg Larsson	Vintage	656	Apr 2010	Apr 2010
Out Stealing Horses	2005	Per Petterson	Picador	256	Apr 2010	Apr 2010
You Shall Know Our Velocity	2002	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	376	May 2010	Mar 2007
American Psycho	1991	Bret Easton Ellis	Vintage	416	May 2010	Jul 2007
Talk Talk	2006	T.C. Boyle	Penguin (Non-Classics)	352	May 2010	May 2010
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 34	2010	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	219	May 2010	May 2010
Matrimony	2007	Joshua Henkin	Vintage	304	May 2010	May 2010
The Exception	2004	Christian Jungersen	Anchor	502	Jun 2010	May 2010
Stoner	1965	John Williams	NYRB Classics	288	Jun 2010	May 2010
Moby-Dick	1851	Herman Melville	W. W. Norton & Company	768	Jul 2010	May 2010
Everything Is Illuminated	2002	Jonathan Safran Foer	Harper Perennial	288	Jul 2010	Jul 2010

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